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IMC 2011: Sessions

Session 121: Gift-Giving, I: Gift-Giving and the Early Middle Ages

Monday 11 July 2011, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Department of History, King's College London
Organiser:Jinty Nelson, Department of History, King's College London
Moderator/Chair:Jinty Nelson, Department of History, King's College London
Paper 121-aGift Revenge, Legacies, and Hand-Me-Downs
(Language: English)
Danuta Shanzer, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein, Universität Wien / Dumbarton Oaks, Washington DC
Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Mentalities
Paper 121-bThe Gift of the Elephant: On the Meanings of Abulabaz
(Language: English)
Paul M. Cobb, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
Index terms: Islamic and Arabic Studies, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 121-cVoluntary Enslavement: From Self-Sale to Self-Gift
(Language: English)
Alice Rio, New College, University of Oxford
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Law, Social History
Abstract

This session will be the first in a series on gift-giving in the Middle Ages; it will concentrate on the earlier period, and open up themes which will recur in later sessions.